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Trouble formatting a USB as a boot device. (Many many errors)
My laptop is a Dell Inspiron N5010. I have a copy of a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 ISO file on my desktop. Not just the ISO file. It, supposedly, has everything needed to burn Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on a DVD. Unfortunately, I have no blank DVD's and no money to buy some. I do have a 32 gig flash drive however. So I did some research to see how I can change it to become a bootable device. Hmm where to begin... It didn't work at first, so after a lot of googling I ended up reformatting the USB to NTFS. Then copying the Windows files on the drive. In my laptop's BIOS I changed USB to primary boot device. Plugged it in and, didn't work. I changed my SATA Mode to ATA instead of AHCI, which someone said would fix it. It didn't. Just for an fyi, when I plug in the USB, and just let it load, it says "BOOTMGR is missing". Someone said I didn't format the USB right and gave me a website on how to walk through it. At some point I was in the command prompt, and after selecting the disk my USB is labeled as, and cleaning it out, I tried to make a partition, or something like that, but it said I had insufficient space. Even though I JUST emptied the entire thing. Another person offered a windows-to-USB program that would walk me through the whole process. But when I selected the ISO file from my desktop I got an error message saying "Invalid ISO file, please select a valid ISO file and try again." A computer tech guy said that on my laptop I could pres F11 and it would bring up a system restore menu and it would act like a recovery disk. Nothing pops up. I'm very frustrated at this point, I've wasted a good 12+ hours on this thing, and I've got nothing to show for it. If there's something I'm leaving out, or a question you want to ask for more info feel free to ask. Any help is welcome. :\
Edit: To be clear, my laptop is out of commission, I'm researching and typing this from a desktop. I have the files on this desktop.
Last edited by Raindeux; 04 Apr 2012 at 18:23. Reason: Typo/clarification